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EYKKKTT. 
This town was badly infested in 1891, but was in fair condition in 
1894. Comparatively little work was done in 1895, owing to pressure 
elsewhere, and the insect increased. Daring 1890 the town was bur- 
Japed and inspected. More caterpillars were taken there in 1890 than 
in any other city or town. It 1897 it was rather generally burlaped, 
and several thousand caterpillars were taken. A few egg clusters 
were found at the end of the season, which indicates a necessity for 
careful burlaping again in 1898. 
LEXINGTON. 
In 1890 it was reported that the greater portion of Lexington was 
cleared. In two colonies in the woodland in the northern portion of 
the town much work was done during the winter of 1896-97. During 
the summer of 1897 nothing was taken under burlaps in one of these 
colonies, showing the insect to have been exterminated. In the other 
a few caterpillars were found, but no egg clusters, indicating that 
extermination was probable also in this colony. In East Lexington 
village a few caterpillars were found in 1890. In 1897 there was no 
evidence of any hatching, and only an occasional caterpillar was taken, 
which had evidently been brought in on some vehicle. The eastern 
corner of the town extends into one of the badly infested spots in the 
woodland, and many trees were found infested in some of the woodland 
colonies in 1896. Much work was done there in the winter and spring. 
There was a woodland fire in the spring at one point, and only a few 
caterpillars were found under burlap in the summer. A number of 
egg clusters were found this fall. Work in these woods was not car- 
ried on very extensively, for the reason that the owner intends to cut 
ofi' the timber. All of the old orchard and village colonies in this 
town are extinct. 
A new colony was found in Lincoln during 1897. This is well out- 
side of the territory mapped in L891. It was reported to the State 
board by persons who noticed the stripped trees and who sent in cater 
pillars in July. Some trees were entirely covered. The colony was 
certainly several years old. .V force of men was set at* Work imme- 
diately. About 1 acres of ground was cut over and about acres 
burned over, and in the center of the colony the number of insects was 
reduced about 90 per cent. Apparently the insect is distributed more 
or less sparsely over about 100 acres of difficult ground to work over, 
since it contains many stone walls and loose ledges of rock. Next 
spring all of the small brush will be burned when the larvae are small 
and the stone walls will be burned over in .May. which will kill at least 
two-thirds of the larvae. New sprouts will then conn 4 out, thus con- 
centrating the remaining Larvae, and a new burning in July will kill 
most of these larva 1 . 
